National Republican., 1887-02-21
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In the other case he played the fool. So does
every man who, in the great crises OF life,
life OF. the most insignificant man in this
house is too vast for any human management. |
One time, returning from the west, l very
the plains, and talked with the engineer; but |
coming on toward the Allegheny mountains,
! thought would like TO sit on the locomotive
that most wonderful scenery on this continent.
asked the engineer If | might ride, but he
courteously denied me, for there the grade is
he must not have any one on the locomotive
who may divert his attention when eye. and
hand, and foot, and brain must be concen'
Well, my friends, life is so steep, and SO
perilous, and so exposed to sudden sur
prises, that none but the Lord Almighty
come from the fact that we want TO get up and
help the Lord TO manage the train. Keep of
the engine Be willing, to let God pull you
right for an instant TO surrender your sanity
and manhood as David surrendered his. Put
your trust in God, and he will take you through
over the mountains. very much suspect that
all the successful enterprises that were ever
carried on, and all the successful lives that
have eyer been lived have been fully sur.
awakened in the night and told that the throne
Of Great Britain was hers. she said to the prelate
Informing her, u ask your prayers" and then
you wonder that though since that time all the
thrones of Europe have fallen or been fearfully
shaken hers stands as firm as the day she as.
cended II ! and In every country under the
sun, wherever an Englishman hears that
name pronounced, he feels like waving
hi his hat and crying: God save the queen T.
IN God viii go through In triumph. while
those who attempt to gather under their own
Of their lie are are miseraby playing the fool /
stood ON the beach, looking of upon the sea;
there was a strong wind blowing, and
sng
way. said to myself: "How is itthat the same
wind sends one vessel in one direction, and
found % out by looking, that Il was the different
way they had the sails set. And so does
trouble come on this world, Some men it
men il drives on the rocks. It depends upon
the way you have your sails sot. All the At
iantic and Pacific oceans OF surging sorrow
have misfortunes Of any kind we put them in
Gods hand and they stay there q little while,
see n anS
| port. As 1t comes near the harbor II sees
| pilot floating about. 1t halls the pilot The
lain, You have had a stormy passage, Go down
| and sleep and l will take the vessel into New
| York harbor." After awhile the captain be-
gins to think: Am right in trusting this yes,
So he comes to the pilot and says; Don't you
see that rock? Don't you see those headlands?
You win wreck the ship Let me lay hSd @ the
| TO you." The pilot becomes angry and says
~ will either take care OF this ship or not. II
you want to, viii get into my Sawl and 60 60
say to, the Lord: 80, God, take my life, take
| my all, in Thy keepingl Be Thou my guide be
| Thou my pilot" We go along for little while,
| going all wrong. o, Lord, we are driving on
shipwreoked" God says: ''You go and rest
no he sfsss sad to eas
foit. and II is our business TO be comtorted.
Herbert, the great thinker, philosophical about
Fophaed aSoSt ben IN his dys
moments, asked that only one word might be
cut upon his tombstone and that word "In-
o the Ss, ana Of
who take their cases out of the hand of God,
The only appropriate inscription for their ban
quoting hall. and their oquipage, and their
use-"lnfelicissimus In drooling, moral
idlocy. they are .scrabbling at the door of their
happiness, which never opens; miserably play
ing the fool.
the fool, as certainly did this man of the text,
who allow the technioalitles OF religion to stop
their salvation. David was wise about great
many things, but his cuttings up In the text
know wise men and great men, competent
for all other stations, who are acting silly
and foolish part In regard to the technicalities
OF religion. They ask us some questions which
we cannot answer categorically, and so they
burst into broad gufiaw, as though 1t is OF
any more interest to us than II ought 10 be to
| them About the at9nement about Gods
DEGREES, about mans destiny they ask great
| many questions which we cannot answer,
and 20 they deride us, as though we could
not ask them thousand questions that